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Title: Plain home talk about the human system--the habits of men and women--the cause and prevention of disease--our sexual relations and social natures
Year: 1896 (1890s)
Authors: Foote. Edward B(liss), 1829-1906. (from old catalog)
Subjects: Medicine, Popular Marriage
Publisher: New York : Murray Hill publishing company (etc., etc.)
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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Medical Science. Andthus have the claims of Mesnier and his followers been vindicated. My theory of mesmeric power is quite essential to support manyof my views as given in this work, and hence I was pleased to find,many years ago, Fig. 81. that the experi-ments of Mr. Wil-liam Crooks as re-ported in a workentitled *; Spirit -uahsm Answeredby Science, by Ed-ward W. Cox,served to confirmit. Mr. Cox was amember of theLondon Dialectic-al Societys In-vestigating Com-mittee, and waspresent at the ex-periments of Mr.Crooks. The objectof his pamphletwas to show thatthe so-called spirit-ual manifestationswere produced by something he called psychic force. He says,this force is generated in certain persons of peculiar nervousorganization in sufficient power to operate beyond bodily contact,and, he continues, there can be little doubt that the force is pos-sessed by every human being—that it is a necessary condition of theliving nerve, if, indeed, it be not the vital force itself, and that it
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JAPANESE MANIPULATORS. 304 COMMON SENSE REMEDIES. is possessed by psychics in extraordinary degree. Mr. Crooks, headds, has recently constructed an instrument of extreme delicacy,which seems to indicate the existence of the psychic force more orless in every person with whom he has made trial of it. The exist-ence of such a force is asserted by Dr. Richardson, in a recentarticle in the Popular Science Review, in which he contends thatthere is a nerve-fluid (or ether), with which the nerves are enveloped,and by whose help it is that the motion of their molecules communi-cates sensations and transmits the commands of the will. Thisnerve-ether is, he thinks, no other than the vital force. It extends with all of us some-^•82- what beyond the extremities of thenerve-structure, andeven beyond thesurface of the body,encompassing u swholly with an en-velope of nerve-at-mosphere, whichvaries in its depthand intensity invarious p e r s o n s.This, he contends,will solve manydifficult problems

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